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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:38:36PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
  | Hello,
  |=20
  | i've implemented a simple optimization of rc.subr:
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  | - move /etc/rc.subr to /etc/rc.subr.real
  | - replace /etc/rc.subr with this:
  |=20
  | if ${_rc_subr_loaded:-false}; then
  | 	:
  | else
  | 	. /etc/rc.subr.real
  | 	_rc_subr_loaded=3Dtrue
  | fi
  |=20
  | All rc scripts should use /etc/rc.subr as before.
  |=20
  | I think this should be completely transparent and avoid problems mentio=
ned
  | in the log message for rev. 1.59 .
  |=20
  | This makes /etc/rc execute in 38 seconds (47 second before) on a
  | 486DX2/50 with NetBSD 1.6. On a Pentium 100 with 2.0_BETA it saves cca 6
  | seconds, on a Pentium 2 /400 MHz one second.
  |=20
  | I think this saving could be even more important for even slower machin=
es
  | such as Vax or Motorola 68030.
  |=20
  | Comments?

FreeBSD has already made a similar change and notified me of it.
I hadn't had a chance to benchmark the effect, but I'll take your
results under advisement.

Cheers,
Luke.

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